Possible Clues:

• Problem for a wordsmith, and a clue to five figures hidden in this puzzle
• The problem is, columnist can't write in the journalists' bar? (6'1,5)
• Novelist’s bane, and a seven-time feature of this puzzle
• Author's creative hiatus
• Psychological obstacle to creativity
• I could be clueless with this problem
• Pad, and why one can't write on it?